At the training, workers will learn CPR and build preparedness kits to take back to their work sites. Each trainee will get a T-shirt to identify them as a leader prepared to help colleagues in an emergency.

Separately, the city and its volunteers plan an exercise from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Feb. 12, to practice activating an emergency operations center in a pandemic. They will gather in the Ashland City Council Chambers, which would serve as the operations center in an actual emergency, to run through a scenario involving a disease outbreak.